[SOLVED] (Hardy) Blank Virtual Terminals (TTY's) & nvidia-glx-new

[llama320]

I've got a problem that's been somewhat documented about switching to the virtual terminals via Ctrl-Alt-F(1-6). When I try this, I see only a blank screen.

I've searched through the forums and found a few how-to's that seem to solve the problem, but none of these fixes have worked for me.

Most notably, I tried the thorough fix on
http://georgia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=585454
which had me editing /etc/modules & /etc/initramfs-tools/modules along with /boot/grub/menu.lst...but to no avail.

I know that if I boot into rescue mode, I can see the tty's. In addition, I'm currently running the nvidia-glx-new driver, but when I tried installing nvidia-glx I could see the tty's but couldn't enable compiz.

I'm running on an HP Pavillion dv6000 with an nVidia Geforce 6150 Go card.

Hopefully there's another fix other than the above, because I so dearly miss my virtual terminals

I've attached my xorg.conf, if it's of any use.

[llama320]

*shameless bump*

[mbradlcu]

I had this problem when using Option "NvAGP" "1" in the xorg.conf under card,, may have been "0" but switching from one to the other resolved the issue for me. hope it helps

[llama320]

Thanks for the suggestion
I tried adding the option but it didn't help

Though I'm a little new at this, I don't think my laptop's using an AGP..when i run lspci I can find my graphics card, so I think it's a pci device

On a side note, since the original post I've also tried taking out the "splash" line from /boot/grub/menu.lst, but to no avail

[llama320]

*another bump*

[mykrob]

I had the same problem, found a bug reported at nvnews. Fixed it by manually installing the nvidia driver 100.14.23

[llama320]

it worked!!
I finally had some time to work on it
Thanks muchly, it was really bugging me